Selma, AL Hotels, Vacations, Tourism

The tidy market town of SELMA , fifty miles west of Montgomery, became in the early Sixties the focal point of a national voting rights campaign. Demonstrations, meetings and attempts to register were repeatedly met by police violence, before the murder of a black protester by a state trooper prompted the decision to organize the historic march from Selma to Montgomery . On "Bloody Sunday," March 7, 1965, six hundred marchers set off across the steep incline of the imposing, narrow Edmund Pettus Bridge . As they went over the apex of the bridge, a line of state troopers fired tear gas without warning, … more »